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I'm checking out the FAT32 spec right now, and am interested in NTFS. But...
According to wiki and some other google links, the NTFS specification is a "trade secret" and Microsoft hasn't released any specification to the public.
However, it exists and can be easily experimented on and manipulated with any Win2000+ machine. Does anyone know of an unofficial release, or at least a hack specification compiled by an individual or something?
NTFS-3G is a stable open-source NTFS read/write driver for Linux (using FUSE). They may know something about NTFS?
Keep in mind that MS-NTFS is a journaling file system, so a bare bones read/write implimentation may not support all the features of the official version.
I'm pretty sure the two NTFS-for-linux projects have some documentation about the disk format of NTFS on their websites, but I just can't find it.
Thanks, I think NTFS-3G will do.
@abachler: That's fine, I'm not trying to do anything to fancy.
Also, does anyone know where I can find anything on exFAT (FAT64)? Microsoft has stuff on 12, 16, and 32, but not 64.
I've never heard of FAT64. AFAIK FAT32 is the last FAT used by MS. After that came NTFS.
exFAT is newer than NTFS.
http://www.answers.com/topic/exfat
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa914353.aspx
Isn't FAT64 something they want or already have for big USB sticks?
Yes.
But XP doesn't support it I don't think, Vista SP1 I know does.